There's a grief that can't be spoken,
there's a pain goes on and on

In Claude-Michel Schönberg's musical Les Misérables, Emtpy chairs at empty tables is a scene sung by Marius in soliloquy.

After the events of the failed revolution (itself inspired on the Paris Uprising of 1832), Marius sits alone and wounded, but alive. He reflects on the price his failed attempt has cost him, mostly measured in lives taken from young men of good will. Why, Marius asks the void, is he alive while his friends are not? In the end, what purpose did their 'revolution' serve? Was it worth it at all?

While the exact details of the scene vary by production, I wish to talk about the last time I saw this musical, in September 2018. The production crew decided that, since they were already taking minor risks using small sparklers during the fight scenes, they could very well take some risks with regular candles. So,…

"Something In The Way" is the twelfth and final track¹ on Nirvana's breakthrough album, Nevermind. It is one of the slower, more clearly enunciated songs on the album, giving a somewhat gentle, introspective ending to a album whose screamed lyrics and angry guitars had made such a splash. The song also, perhaps, derives a little lyrical and musical inspiration from The Beatles' Something.

The song is an autobiographical sketch, where Kurt Cobain describes his…

Named for the Italian anatomist Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti who discovered it in 1851, the organ of Corti, also called the spiral organ, is a structure found in the inner ear of mammals, which acts as the microphone for our sense of hearing. Like a microphone, the organ of Corti receives the mechanical vibration of sound through the air, and it transduces it into the electrical signals which the nervous system interprets into hearing.

The organ of Corti contains four…